Gonzalo Vargas

Gonzalo Vargas is a 70-year-old man from Chile; he works for amnesty and is fighting for civil rights for everyone. 

He was once held captive in Chile, torture prison for 3 years. He shared some of his horrible and cruel experiences. 

Some of the topics he talked about:

- The torture 

- Forgiveness 

Both topics had an impact on us. He talked about how he was tortured by his "best friend" Martin. Martin was his secretary for the past 3 years, but he was also a secret spion. One day he told Gonzalo that he was going to die. The same day Gonzalo was arrested because of his political point of view.

On the way down to the torture prison, he heard women, men and children screaming and crying for help. His first experience was hideous; he got an electric chock and was treated like a animal.

The prisoners were treated both bad mentally and physically.   

Cooking experience

Last Tuesday we made some international food. Two of the things we made were Bulgarian. We made four groups with four people in each and, 2 of the groups made filled peppers with beef & rice and the other two made a Bulgarian salad called “Shopska salata”. One of the groups had Nicole in it, and she is from Bulgaria, so she knew more about it than the rest of us. When it came down to eating the food, there was a lot of things Nicole could point out was different, because the rest of us made the food without her help.

The salad was meant to be served with a lot of olive oil and big cubes of cucumber and tomatoes, and the cheese was meant to be prepared a different way than the way we did it.  The salad was meant to be served in a deep plate.  Instead the groups, made normal medium sized cucumbers and tomatoes with a little amount of oil and the cheese was crumbled over the salad. The way you make the salad is that you cut up vegetables, pour some oil on it and add cheese and salt & pepper.

The peppers was meant to be moist and have nice soft rice and nice powerful spices

The groups peppers turned out dry and a little too bland/low on spices

The way you cook the peppers is that you mix your uncooked beef with some the vegetables, spices, vegetable broth and the uncooked rice, then you cut the top off of the pepper and cut out the insides, then you put the meat-mix in the peppers and put them in a pot of boiling water, with a plate on top, so no water ends up in your peppers and then you put a lid on top.  Then you let them boil/simmer for about 40 minutes.

Made by Nicole, Kezia, Thea og Nicoline